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The Internet front door to almost every bank and financial services company in the world is guarded by two sets of firewalls defining a DMZ. Nearly every e-commerce site sits in a similar DMZ in what has become the de facto standard in Web security architecture. According to Sun Microsystems, "In today's tumultuous times, having a sound firewall/DMZ environment is your first line of defense against external threats." But I would argue that guarding the perimeter is lulling organizations into a false sense of security that results in ignoring the implementation of other security mechanisms in their applications and databases.

The judge overseeing the U.S. government's case to block Oracle's hostile bid for PeopleSoft quizzed both sides during closing arguments Tuesday, emphasizing market definition and customer testimony.

Oracle and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed their closing trial briefs late Tuesday in the government's case to block Oracle's hostile takeover of PeopleSoft, paving the way for closing arguments next week.

One day after Oracle launched its hostile bid for PeopleSoft, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates sent an e-mail to Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer suggesting that Microsoft come to PeopleSoft's rescue.

An Oracle-PeopleSoft merger would boost competition in the market for enterprise applications, an SAP America executive testified Wednesday in the U.S. government's case to block the proposed merger.

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Breaking its usual two-year upgrade cycle, Microsoft is getting ready to launch Project 2003, the next version of its project planning and management tool, the Redmond, Washington, vendor said Wednesday.

Our call for predictions regarding the future of software development and Web services yielded a bumper crop of interesting insights.

SAN MATEO (09/14/2000) - Austin, Texas-based Loanfirst.com will combine forces with American Management Systems Inc. (AMS), in Fairfax, Va., to help car dealers quickly provide customers with multiple financing options, company officials said this week. The partnership gives Loanfirst.com -- a service that connects auto dealers and lending institutions -- access to AMS's NetCredit eLending network, a system that offers processing and decision support for credit applications. Through the Loanfirst.com/NetCredit partnership, auto dealers can apply online for loans and receive several financing options for their customers in as little as 30 seconds via an automated credit system, the companies said. AMS counts more than 150 banks and other lenders among its long-term clients..

The idea that government agencies will use online procurement is no longer in doubt. The question now is what form e-procurement will take, and how online services will fit into the esoteric world of federal purchasing.

As a buzzword, "e-government" has been bandied about as a solution to many of government's most pressing problems. But for all of its possibilities, the use of the Internet as a path for government-to- citizen services has not been emphasized as much as one might expect by federal agencies.